STATE v. EDWARDS

No. 88-02640.

547 So.2d 183 (1989)

STATE of Florida, Appellant, v. Kenneth Melton EDWARDS, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District.

Rehearing Denied July 13, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert A. Butterworth, Atty. Gen., Tallahassee, and Michele Taylor, Asst. Atty. Gen., Tampa, for appellant.

Richard D. Mars, Bartow, for appellee.


PARKER, Judge.

The state appeals an order granting Kenneth Edwards' motion to suppress cocaine seized from Edwards' vehicle. We reverse.

Sergeant Waldron of the Lake Wales Police Department received a telephone call from a confidential informant (CI).* The CI provided the officer with the following information. Kenny Edwards' black and gold pickup truck was at Ernie's, a local bar. Soon, Edwards' girlfriend, a white female, would...

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